On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:24:19 +0100, Tim Goetze wrote: > >Yeah, I think thats difficult, and probably not neccesary, the "hard clip" > >from a guitar amp doesn;t look very hard to me, so I recon you could just > >apply the shaper, plus a bit of oversampling, a LP filter and it'd be > >fine. > > http://quitte.de/driven.gif > does look like hard clipping to me (sine, shaped at maximum gain).
Yeah, that'l be allright <waves hand nonchalanantly> ;) if we were talking square waves I'd be worried. > went looking at some pod distortion. it seems you're right about > the harmonic mix not being influenced by signal amplitude, it > seems they just fade them in with more gain. an interesting fact is > that the harmonics it generates die away before they reach 11 kHz; a Yeah, that hints very strongly at cheap antialising (like we're planning) - I think its fine, guitar cabinets and cones aren't that big on high frequencies anyway. > i'm puzzled how they do manage to come up with such a lot of > different distortion characters though. My current guess is different transfer functions. Do you know the phrase "when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" ;) - Steve
